Garment hanger



Patented Aug. 14, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application July 3, 1931, Serial No. 548,624 In Canada June 8, 1931 1 Claim.

This invention relates to garment hangers and the object is to provide a hanger of simple and inexpensive construction equipped with garment retaining clasps adapted to grip the shoulder por- 5 tions of a dress or similar garment which may have a tendency to slip off the hanger when placed thereon.

According to this invention, the hanger is formed with inclined side membersV having inwardly bent portions constituting clamps adapted to be engaged with the shoulder portions of a dress or similar garment so that the garment is Vsecurely held in place without damage to the fabric. The sides of the hanger are connected at their upper ends to form a suspension hook and have their lower ends connected by the usual horizontal hanger bar.

Proceeding now to a more detailed description, reference will be had to the accompanying draw- 20 ing wherein the single figure is a side view of a hanger constructed in accordance with this invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 11 designates the side members of the hanger having their lower ends connected by the usual horizontal hanger portion 12. At their upper ends the members 11 are twisted together in the usual manner indicated at 13 and one of said ends is extended beyond the other and bent to form a suspension hook 14.

In accordance with this invention, each side I member 1l is bent to present an inwardlyextending loop 15 having the top and bottom portions 16 and 17 lying close together to form the upper and lower members of a resilient garment retaining clasp. When the hanger is used for supporting a dress 18 or similar garment, the shoulder portions of the Vgarment are slipped over the lower clasp members 17 and beneath the upper clasp members 16 and are securely gripped between these clasp members without danger of injury to the fabric of the garment.

The loops 15 are so formed as to avoid any projection beyond the general plane X of the 'side members 1l which would tend to snag or distort the shape of the shoulder portion of a coat when the hanger is used as an ordinary coat hanger. It will also be noted that the loops l5 slope inwardly and upwardly at such an angle that the tendency of the garment to slip off the supporting surfaces of the members 1'7 is materially lessened as compared with the ordinary coat hanger in which the garment supporting sides slope, upwardly to the suspension hook at a much steeper angle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isz- A garment hanger formed from a single length of wire bent to providea horizontal bottom member and a pair of side members sloping upwardly and inwardly from the extremities of the bottom member, said side members presenting upper portions sloping at a relatively steep angle and lower portions sloping at a lesser angle, the differently sloping portions of each side member lyingin vertically inclined planes which intersect each other at a point coinciding with the adjacent end of the horizontal bottom member and being connected together to present an inwardly extending loop having top and bottom members lying close together to form co-operating upper and lower members of a resilient garment retaining clasp.

EDWIN H. MAW. 

